If ever one day of the year can be called carnival day then
it’s today, no fixed date you understand, a movable feast forty days before
Easter, which roughly is, the Sunday following the full Moon which falls on or
after the equinox. Not exactly and perfectly right, but good enough for me and
The Venerable Bede wrote that definition of the date of Easter down in 725.
About 800 years later in 1559 Pieter Bruegel the Elder
painted The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, the main historic image of this
traditionally important symbol.
Here in Ramsgate what with the temperature at this time of
year and stuff, very few of us celebrate this religious festival by removing
most of our clothes and dancing in the street wearing feathers.
In fact after last night’s storm we don’t have that much to
celebrate as another major running point in the departure of Ramsgate Main
Sands has been reached
if you look at the photo you will see the high tide mark has
reached the sea defence next to the East Pier harbour wall.
I posted about this issue yesterday, see http://thanetonline.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/ramsgate-main-sands-where-is-sand-going.html#comment-form
which resulted in various ideas in the form of comments, mostly on the various
Facebook groups that yesterday’s post was linked to.
In fact I have been posting about the problem for several
years now and it would seem that finally we have lost our sand above the high
tide mark in Ramsgate, although a bit opposite the lifeguard station may remain
for a year or two.
In the bookshop here in Ramsgate we are working hard
processing the books we have bought recently, if you want to know what has just
gone out on the shelves then keep an eye on http://michaelsbookshop.blogspot.co.uk/
As far as I know we are the only bookshop in the world
photographing all the books we put out on the shelves every working day and
putting the photos on the internet.
Technically it isn’t very difficult to do this now because
of cloud computing which puts the photos on the internet automatically after
you take them. Strangely although this all links up with blogger and youtube, Facebook
it seems has yet to get to grips with the cloud, it’s a funny old world.
Ramsgate town centre wise the 99p shop has closed
the £1 shop is moving to the site
and then the 99p shop is closing, I think. Is that right? Sound
like it.
The Poundland shop was Vye and Sons 'new' supermarket in the late 60s. I had a summer job there at 14 "filling the butter cabinets" at 1s10d per hour. The bacon cutting room was above the front of the shop and alongside this was a door that led into the old house it had been built into. The stockroom was at the rear and I suspect some of that was turned into shop space when the clothes shop there had an upstairs. Wonder what remains hidden?
ReplyDeletePoundland bought out 99p stores so I guess having 2 stores owned by the same company opposite each other makes little financial sense.
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